13 May 2016
PAMIS to lead PMLD Awareness Day
University of Dundee-based charity PAMIS will next week host their second Profound and Multiple Learning Disability (PMLD) Awareness Day. Events will take place across Scotland as part of the programme, which aims to raise awareness of both the difficulties that people with profound and multiple learning difficulties and their families face and also the ways they can be helped to be more active and valued members of society. PMLD Awareness Day is a being held on Monday, 16th May 2016 and will see the activities that people with PMLD can take part in such as adaptive skiing, yoga, craft, wheelchair ice sk...
12 May 2016
Dundee Professor named Conservationist of the Year
Tony Martin, Professor of Animal Conservation at the University of Dundee, has been named as Conservationist of the Year in recognition of his exceptional leadership of the world’s largest rodent eradication operation. Professor Martin, of the University’s Centre for Remote Environments, received the prestigious award from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). He leads the South Gergia Heritage Trust’s Habitat Restoration Project, which seeks to reverse two centuries of devastation caused by rats that threatens the globally important seabird sanctuary of South Georgia, a British Overse...
11 May 2016
Emerging talent to the fore at Degree Show 2016
The University of Dundee will once more be transformed into Scotland’s largest exhibition space next week when some of the UK’s brightest emerging creative talents showcase the fruits of their undergraduate labours. The Art, Design and Architecture Degree Show 2016 opens on Friday, May 20th. Over the show’s 10-day run, thousands of visitors will cast their eye over work from around 300 students from the University’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and the School of Social Sciences. The 2016 Degree Show takes place throughout the two buildings and fourteen floors t...
11 May 2016
Dundee scientist wins Royal Society of Chemistry Prize
Professor David Lilley, from the University of Dundee, is the Royal Society of Chemistry Khorana Prizewinner for 2016. The Khorana Prize recognises outstanding achievement award for research at the chemistry and life science interface. Professor Lilley receives £5000, a medal and a certificate. Professor Lilley said, “I am honoured to receive the Khorana Prize, and most grateful to the RSC for awarding this to me. I regard this as a recognition of the work of my laboratory as a whole. I have a wonderfully talented group of postdoctoral colleagues who are incredibly productive and full of insi...
11 May 2016
Trial aims to improve muscle strength in older people
A UK-wide clinical trial is set to examine whether a commonly used heart pill and a food supplement could improve the health of older people across the UK by improving muscle strength. Researchers at the University of Dundee, University of Aberdeen and Imperial College London are testing whether the treatments can prevent the weakening of muscles that commonly affects older people. The research team aims to recruit 450 people aged 70 and over from across the UK. Participants will be given a heart pill (perindopril) or a matching dummy tablet, and also a food supplement powder (leucine) or matching dummy ...
